JACK

Take my hand. I’ll pull you back in.

ROSE

No! Stay where you are. I mean it. I’ll let go.

JACK

No you won’t.

ROSE

What do you mean no I won’t? Don’t presume to tell me what I will and will not do. You don’t know me.

JACK

You would have done it already. Now come on, take my hand.

ROSE

You’re distracting me. Go away.

JACK

I can’t. I’m involved now. If you let go I have to jump in after you.

ROSE

Don’t be absurd. You’ll be killed.

JACK

I’m a good swimmer.

ROSE

The fall alone would kill you.

JACK

It would hurt. I’m not saying it wouldn’t. To be honest I’m a lot more concerned about the water being so cold.

ROSE

How cold?

JACK

Freezing. Maybe a couple degrees over.

JACK

Ever been to Wisconsin?

ROSE

No.

JACK

Well they have some of the coldest winters around, and I grew up there, near Chippewa Falls. Once when I was a kid me and my father were ice-fishing out on Lake Wissota… ice-fishing’s where you chop a hole in the–

ROSE

I know what ice fishing is!

JACK

Sorry. Just… you look like kind of an indoor girl. Anyway, I went through some thin ice and I’m tellin’ ya, water that cold… like that right down there… it hits you like a thousand knives all over your body. You can’t breath, you can’t think… least not about anything but the pain. Which is why I’m not looking forward to jumping in after you. But like I said, I don’t see a choice. I guess I’m kinda hoping you’ll come back over the rail and get me off the hook here.

ROSE

You’re crazy.

JACK

That’s what everybody says. But with all due respect, I’m not the one hanging off the back of a ship. 

Come on. You don’t want to do this. Give me your hand.

ROSE

Alright.

JACK

I’m Jack Dawson.

ROSE

Pleased to meet you, Mr. Dawson.

***(her foot slips off the edge of the deck)***

ROSE

HELP! HELP!!

JACK

I’ve got you. I won’t let go.